The election of Theodore Roosevelt and Florida Governor Broward (1905-1909) brought in renewed interest in inland waterways and drainage across the Nation. Roosevelt convened the National Drainage Congress at the White House.  Governor Broward began his plan to drain the Everglades by dredging four canals from Lake Okeechobee to the east coast of Florida and…

Most of us have a general idea where one might find the ancient kingdom of Babylon. It’s in the Middle East. More precisely it is today known as Iraq. But few of us know that in ancient times, there were Seven Ancient Wonders of the World AND their locations. They were the Great Pyramid of…

In the late 1890’s, as Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway and a New England group of investors headed by George Bradley of Providence, R.I., pushed their respective railway and what would become the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway down the east coast of Florida in exchange for state public land. Some investors had become skittish about…

Especially before the Hispanic period, the dominant form of transportation was by use of the many colorful, small, slender light draft boats on the myriad canals. Over a period of several hundred years, farmers continued to grow flowers, fruits, and vegetables atop the mulch and muck lands dug by hand from the bottom of Lake Xochimilcho.…

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http://youtu.be/YzCULxAmkRU Approximately one hundred years after President Theodore Roosevelt embarked upon the construction of the original 48-mile-long Panamal Canal,  the Republic of Panama began the final steps toward the completion of a more modern waterway in the summer of 2015. The new project modernizes Lake Gatun and the the most difficult of the original cuts,…